We are currently building a website but also have 2 in existance on a remote server that were being looked after for us. We wish to look after these in house now and need to get them on a local server. We have xampp running for our site that is under construction along with a joomla installation, I understand that I need to run seperate joomla installations for each site but these can all operate from the same xampp set up. We have been sent the databases for our other 2 sites and I have tried installing them with no luck does anyone know if what I want to do is possible and if so how can I do it?

I am looking to do something very similar. I administer a website that is live and am working on creating my own. My own site is just on my local machine. I would like to be able to work with the live site I administer locally as well. How can I work on both locally? I have the mySQL database for the live site downloaded for my local machine but I don't know where to put it or how to toggle between the 2 sites locally. Any help would be appreciated.